...their soul ; With Zeuxis' Helen thy Bridgewater vie, 75 And these be sung 'till Granville's Myra die; Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ? Thou but preserv'st a Face and I a Name. 76. Granville's Myra] George Granville Lord Lansdowne (1667-1735), who in his poems frequently celebrated...

...end (in the final couplet) with an elegiac recognition of the absolute, inescapable fact of absence: "Alas! how little from the grave we claim?/ Thou but preserv'st a Face and I a Name." Fragments, remnants, traces: a poetics of absence is what creates some of the more compelling moments...

...the tonic realism of loss. The person, the loved and known individual, has vanished irreplaceably. Alas, how little from the grave we claim Thou but preserv'st a Face, and I a Name.-- ASPECTS OF ART LECTURE Scholarship and the Musical: Reclaiming Jerome Kern STEPHEN BANFIELD University...

...their soul ; With Zeuxis' Helen thy Bridgewater vie, And these be sung till Granville's Myra die : Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face, and I a name." Well, this picture (No. 160), Elizabeth Churchill, Countess of Bridgewater, was here too, sent by Earl...

...their soul ; With Zeuxis" Helen thy Bridgewater vie, And these be sung till Granville's Myra die : Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face, and I a name." And shall we cut ourselves out from beauties like these with a theory? Shall we shut up our hooks,...

...Lely's carnations, nor even with many of Kneller's other works which have been better preserved. " Alas ! how little from the grave we claim: Thou but preserv'st a face, and I, a name" — exclaimed Pope to his friend : and pity it is, that of several of the beautiful women we are now...